Republicans Cave In - Senators near a deal on background checks for private gun sales

Republicans Cave In - Senators near a deal on background checks for most private gun sales

February 24, 2013
Source: Washington Post

A bipartisan group of senators is on the verge of a deal that would expand background checks to all private firearms sales with limited exemptions, but significant disagreements remain on the issue of keeping records of private gun sales, according to aides familiar with the talks.

An agreement would be a bold first step toward consideration of legislation to limit gun violence in the wake of the mass shootings at a Connecticut elementary school in December and comes as the Senate Judiciary Committee is expected this week to begin considering new proposals to limit gun violence.

The talks, led by two Democrats and two Republicans, are expected to earn more GOP support in the coming days and likely enough to move the bill through the Senate, according to senior aides of both parties who were not authorized to speak publicly on the matter.

“These negotiations are challenging, as you’d expect on an issue as complicated as guns,” the chief negotiator, Sen. Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.), said in a statement Saturday. “But all of the senators involved are approaching this in good faith. We are all serious about wanting to get something done, and we are going to keep trying.”

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Black Blade: As I have been saying, the Republican Party is dead. They are as useless as balls on a priest and tits on a nun . They won't even stand up on their hind legs and fight when they have a winning position against gun control. I wash my hands of them.

When you're born you get a ticket to the freak show. When you're born in America , you get a front row seat. - George Carlin

Does anybody notice that whenever Dems and Republicans work together it is alwasy worse for everybody else??? Just saying...

"What country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance?" -Thomas Jefferson-

"Our rights come from our humanity and may not be legislated away -- not by a vote of Congress, not by the consensus of our neighbors, not even by agreement of all Americans but one." Judge Andrew P. Napolitano

Well either way they are just are just making decisions irregardless of what America really wants. Sure waving letters from school age kids looks good but trying to enforce issues pushed by people who DONT EVEN OWN GUNS, seems to be the knee jerk to both parties. Repubs caved on taxes, and will most ikely continue to cave lest they be potrayed as "unapproachable" or "extremists". This contry started to take a dive when our elected representatives started bending your morals in pursuit of self gain. Now is not the time for the party which proclaims it represents "The Moral of America" to start bending with the tide.

"What country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance?" -Thomas Jefferson-

"Our rights come from our humanity and may not be legislated away -- not by a vote of Congress, not by the consensus of our neighbors, not even by agreement of all Americans but one." Judge Andrew P. Napolitano

Where is the Repub who will stand up and say...Hell no we won't debate-we won't grandfather shit. Nothing will be changed!! Come after them and you WILL REAP WHAT YOU SOW!!! You guys just don't get it! They get this...what's next?? These assholes will not stop! They hate us and want us dis-armed.

You're dead on Bill. There really isn't a Democratic and Republican party anymore. They are all just actors portraying what they are told by their puppetmaster(s) to do. They pretend to fight over an issue, just like television wrestlers do. The outcome is already known. The Republicans come to a "compromise" with the Democrats, and they institute some new law, rule, regulation, or whatever that was EXACTLY what they wanted all along. I am so freaking sick of this sham that is Washington Politics, it's not even funny. We are WAY past the point where our founding fathers would have been spurred into action.

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Reason: spelling

Enforcement, NOT Amnesty!!!!!!

"If they’re going to come here illegally, apply for & receive assistance through a corrupted Government agency encouraging this lawless behavior, work under the table & send billions of dollars each year back to their families in Mexico, while bleeding local economies dry, protest in our streets waving their Mexican flags DEMANDING rights, while I have to press ’1′ for English, then they need to be shipped back to where they came from!" -Chad Miller

O.K..

These commie dick wads keep putting pen too paper..
Now I go too my FFL.. Call the NICS or whoever the hell they are? Oh yeah he is o.k. sell him the weapon.. Well geez thank you so much dick heads.
Fun shops down here present situation.. Phone is on speaker for 8 hours straight on back-ground checks..
FFL have a code number they give, I guess, slam bam thank you maam..
So Tim wants to sell Grandmas gun too his neighbor..
"Hello, this is Tim, I am selling a shotgun too my neighbor, I would like to...."
"Who is this? Your selling what? Who are you again?"
Those L.O.s do not have time for that crap.. The FFLs can not even get through for legal sales, and they want us calling.. WTF over..
Our L.O.s and Sheriffs keep asking who in the hell is going to enforce these commie mother friggers rules?
Keep wasting ink..
Only thing I see is cutting into fun shows.. They could nail people there.
Other than that, King George. Keep making your idiot rules, nobody is listening.

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"Man needs but two things to survive alone in the woods. A blow up female doll and his trusty old AK-47" - Thomas Jefferson 1781